Students from Reception, and Years One and Two at St
Andrews International School were eager to show off their emerging swimming
skills at the recent Key Stage One Swimming Gala. The students had a great
time participating in lots of different water events organized for both
swimmers and non-swimmers. The "Treasure Dive" had everyone
scouring the bottom of the pool to see what they could find and there was
stiff competition to see what House could find and collect the most
treasure! After the final scores were tallied up, the Red House emerged as
the winners of a fun filled Key Stage One Swimming Gala.

The Red
House are the victors of the K.S. 2 and K.S.3 Swimming Gala.

Keep
Going! We’re nearly there...

"This
is easy," says Nick.

A second day of competition was held for the older
students in Key Stages Two and Three which resulted in a closely contested
Swimming Gala. Parents, students and teachers witnessed a great display of
swimming from all the children involved and everyone certainly swam for
their House teams with lots of enthusiasm.

After a well deserved break and snack the children were
able to participate in some fun races including a "tyre relay" and
a "Treasure Dive". There was even a relay race for the mums, dads
and teachers, which saw some interesting styles of getting the finish line
first!

The overall winners of the Key Stage Two and Three and Swimming Gala was
again the Red House, although the Blues and Whites provided some stiff
competition. A big thank you to Mrs. Sribbans for organizing two great
Swimming Galas, and to all the mums and dads who came along on the day to
cheer for the competitors.

Early Years Water Day

Nursery and Kindergarten children had buckets of fun at
the annual Early Years Water Day held at St. Andrews International School
recently.

This is
the way we wash the plates on a warm and sunny morning.

Honaka
gets a helping hand to empty her bucket.

Miss
Sonia and Amy getting ready to slip and slide.

Activities organized for the day include a slippery water
slide which had the children lining up to slide down on bottoms, back and
fronts! There was also a wading pool to see who could make the biggest
splash, and trying to catch a fish in a net proved to be challenging.

The children had a wonderful time throwing and catching the water
balloons and everyone’s favorite event was the water bucket race held as
the finale to the day. It was great to see so many mums and dads come along
and participate in the Water Day and help make it a splashing success.

Pattaya School No.5 ready to open new tuition building

Suchada Tupchai

Pattaya School No. 5 finally has its brand new tuition
building. Last week Faruk Wongborisut, chairman of secondary and primary
level education committee, Pattaya City, and Sermsit Rungrujee, director of
Pattaya School No.5, committee members, and the school teachers gathered for
an inspection.

Pattaya school number 5 (Baan Nern Pattaya Nua) is one of
ten schools under the supervision and budget of Pattaya City. The school
provides education to kids between nursery level and Mathayom 3 level.

The school has 40 teachers and class enrollments of 1,200
students, most of whom are Thai-Muslim children.

When city officials learned that the number of the new
family members in the area is rapidly increasing it was decided to construct
one more building to meet to the needs of the community.

The city spent 6.4 million baht to build the four story-tall building
which is equipped with 12 classrooms.